Sunday, 10 April 2011

Rajasthan royals beat Deccan Chargers



Former champions Rajasthan Royals scored 8-wicket victory over Hyderabad Deccan Chargers in their opening match of DLF IPL. This match was played at the Rajiv Gandhi International stadium in Hyderabad.


Johan Botha of the Rajasthan Royals scored cracking 67 of 47 balls to take his team to the victory.  Ross Taylor with 21 & Rahul Dravid with 28 supported him well. Royals reach the target of 138 with the 7 balls spare. 


Daniel Christian , one of the highets payes player of Indian Premier League scored 26 runs for Deccan chargers. Whereas new skipper of the team Kumar Sangakkara got out for a duck


Summary :


Deccan Chargers Hyderabad - 137/8 (20 overs)
Ravi Teja- 28, Daniel Christian- 26, Siddharth Trivedi- 3/15, Amit Singh- 3/35)

lost to


Rajasthan Royals - 141/2 (18.5 overs)
(johan Botha 67*, Ross Taylor 21, Dayle Stayne- 18/2)

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